DAY 4_MARK'S FINEST PAPERS APRIL BLOG HOP_GARDEN FAIRIES

Welcome to the MFP April Blog Hop! This month, we are releasing 4 NEW SETS!


Our New Sets are: In My Mother's Garden, Bearded Iris, Oh Boy, It's a Girl and Garden Fairies.For your convenience, all 4 stamp sets are available for purchase TODAY!

We have a NEW Blog Candy Contest! BE A GUEST DESIGNER!***

What do you need to do to qualify? Just comment on the Design Team blogs during the blog hop. The winner will be announced on the Mark’s Finest Papers blog on Saturday, April 16, 2011. ***See the MFP blog for all the contest rules and PRIZES!



FRIDAY, April 15, 2011: Garden Fairies

Emily-

Karen-

Patty-

Roxie-

Vicki-

Liz:

Claudine-

Dawn-

Nicole -

Marilynn-

Peggysue-

Connie –

Emily N.-

Neva

Silvia

Patricia

Chrissy

Guest Designer, Lillian

Mark’s Finest Papers

I love fairies and collect fairie books and love to read all thing fairie so this is a terrific set for me.
The first card was made using Lime Squeeze and Snow Storm White cs from MFP.
I love these colors together.
I inked this pretty fairie image 2 times in Palette Noir black and colored with Copic markers. I also added some teeny tiny aqua pearls to the tip of her wings. I then die cut one image with a plain Nestie and the second I line cut just the fairie and popped it over the main panel image. I then added a die cut Nestie scalloped mat.
The bg is embossed with a folder I received as a gift.
To embellish my card I used Doohickey die cut leaves with tiny pearls in the leaves and finished with a gorgeous paper flower.

The second card I made for yesterday SCS challenge. I have this beautiful picture of a rain drop in a leaf "I don't know who the photographer is" and though it would be perfect to show this cute fairie silhouette.
The image is inked in Palette Noir with the inside of wings colored with a red Copic marker.
I added a sentiment tag and a gorgeous red ribbon bow.
Clean and simple, I also really like how this one turned out.
Have a wonderful weekend, Nicky

April Blog Hop Day 3 "My Mother's Garden"

Welcome to the MFP April Blog Hop! This month, we are releasing 4 NEW SETS!


Our New Sets are: In My Mother's Garden, Bearded Iris, Oh Boy, It's a Girl and Garden Fairies.For your convenience, all 4 stamp sets are available for purchase TODAY!

We have a NEW Blog Candy Contest! BE A GUEST DESIGNER!***

What do you need to do to qualify? Just comment on the Design Team blogs during the blog hop. The winner will be announced on the Mark’s Finest Papers blog on Saturday, April 16, 2011. ***See the MFP blog for all the contest rules and PRIZES!

Thursday, April 14, 2011-In My Mother's Garden

Lois

Vicky

Dawn L.

Anne

Emily

Karen

Patty

Roxie

Vicki

Liz

Claudine

Dawn M

Nicole

Marilynn

Geri

Lynn

Neva

Silvia

Guest Designer, Lillian

Mark’s Finest Papers

I think this is my favorite of the new April stamps sets from MFP.
I used Lavender and white as my colors.
The image was stamped with Palette Noir black ink and colored with Copic markers.
I embossed the bg with a basket weave folder and the strip was done with two lengths of embossing strips...one buttons and the other zigzag.
The rest is self explanatory.
I think a wheel barrow full of flowers would look lovely in any garden.
I really love this sentiment.
Happy Hopping and good luck, Nicky

Day 2 of Mark's Finest Papers April Blog Hop

Welcome to the MFP April Blog Hop! This month, we are releasing 4 NEW SETS!


Our New Sets are: In My Mother's Garden, Bearded Iris, Oh Boy, It's a Girl and Garden Fairies.For your convenience, all 4 stamp sets are available for purchase TODAY!

We have a NEW Blog Candy Contest! BE A GUEST DESIGNER!***

What do you need to do to qualify? Just comment on the Design Team blogs during the blog hop. The winner will be announced on the Mark’s Finest Papers blog on Saturday, April 16, 2011. ***See the MFP blog for all the contest rules and PRIZES!

WEDNESDAY, April 13: Oh Boy, It's a Girl!

Lois

Vicky

Dawn L.

Anne

Peggysue

Connie

Claudine

Dawn M.

Nicole

Marilynn

Geri

Lynn

Emily N.

Patricia

Chrissy

Guest Designer, Lillian

Mark’s Finest Papers

Today is day 2 of MFP's Blog Hop. I am featuring the set "Oh Boy It's a Girl".
Don't you just love this darling elephant. I inked the elephant and the sentiment with Palette Noir onto a purple plaid and purple dots dp respectively, and line cut the image. All of the dp on this card is from DCWV/Baby Boy. I used bright white cs for the matting.
To add some pizazz I inked the diaper pin with Palette Noir onto the white dotted dp and line cut it also. I tied on a pretty ribbon knot and threaded the diaper pin thru it. I think it's looks cute.
Happy blogging everyone, Nicky

BLOG HOP DAY 1 for Mark's Finest Papers

Welcome to the MFP April Blog Hop! This month, we are releasing 4 NEW SETS!


Our New Sets are: In My Mother's Garden, Bearded Iris, Oh Boy, It's a Girl and Garden Fairies.For your convenience, all 4 stamp sets are available for purchase TODAY!

We have a NEW Blog Candy Contest! BE A GUEST DESIGNER!***

What do you need to do to qualify? Just comment on the Design Team blogs during the blog hop. The winner will be announced on the Mark’s Finest Papers blog on Saturday, April 16, 2011. ***See the MFP blog for all the contest rules and PRIZES!


TUESDAY April 12, 2011- Bearded Iris
Lois
Vicky
Dawn L.
Anne
Peggysue
Connie
Emily

Karen
Patty
Roxie
Vicki
Liz
Geri
Lynn
Emily N.
Neva
Silvia

Patricia

Chrissy

Guest Designer, Lillian

Mark’s Finest Papers

This is going to be my Mother's day card for my DMIL.
This is one of the images from the new set "Bearded Iris". This set can be very feminine and perfect for Mother's Day.
I stamped the image 3 times with Palette Noir black ink, colored with Copic markers then line cut the images. I layered some of the petal parts and used pop-up dots to raised the image onto a white oval Nestie shape die cut cs and then layered that over an scalloped oval Nestie die cut on black cs.
The dp is from 7 gypsies/gypsy market variety pack.
I distresses and sponged on black around the edges and mounted to a black mat.
My embellishment on this card is a threaded black ribbon with a pretty acrylic flower.
Happy hopping and good luck to every one, Nicky

Sneak Peek of "Oh Boy It's a Girl" by Mark's Finest Papers and the SCS, CAS114 challenge.

 

This is my card for today's challenge CAS114.
This is a sneak peek of Mark's Finest Papers new set "Oh Boy It's a Girl".

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That little cutie in the picture is my new Great Grandson Jackson.
I paper piece the giraffe with a green polka dot dp.
I popped the bow around his neck and added a green gem to match.
I only used dp on this card it's by DCWV/Nursery/Baby Boy.
I used a punched for the edging and a cute ribbon simply knoted. The sentiment is inked in Palette Noir.
Nicky

Sneak Peek of "Garden Fairies" by Mark's Finest Papers and the F4A59 challenge

Thanks for the fun technique. This is what I came up with. This is a soon to be released sneak peek of the set "Garden Fairies" by Mark's Finest Papers.







http://www.marksfinestpapers.com/servlet/StoreFrontFor the papers I used BoBunny and cs from MFP.
The image and sentiment are stamped with Versafine/Sepia. The embossing folder is from Sizzix.
I added this beautiful chocolate silk ribbon to finish.

Have a nice weekend, Nicky

Sneak Peek of "In My Mother's Garden" by Mark's Finest Papers and WT317 challenge

I love love love this image. In our WT317 challenge today we are to use decorative scissors. I used my on the bottom of the main image and main panel.
The image is stamped in Palette Noir black on watercolor paper then water colored with a small artist brush and watercolor paint. I added some Flower Soft to the hanging basket flowers to give them dimension but chose to water color the lillies in the earns. I added some tiny yellow gems to the middle of the flowers.
To finish I added some tiny white dots with a gel pen to the edging and a pretty blue satin ribbon.
The is a Sneak Peek coming soon to Mark's Finest Papers it is called "In My Mother's Garden.
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Thanks for looking, Nicky

SC327 challenge and a Sneak Peek for Mark's Finest release out soo "Oh! Boy It's a Girl!

This is a Sneak Peek of the upcoming set “Oh! Boy It’s a Girl!”. I think this is one of the cutest baby sets.
For the SC327 chalenge I used the image of the little Zebra. I stamped it’s image in Palette Noir black onto blue striped dp, I then stamped it on another dp but just line cut the bow and added a tiny gem.
All of the designer papers are Nana’s Nursery Baby Boy by DCWV.
I line cut the animal and popped it onto the panel #3.
On panel #2 I stamped my sentiment added a yellow ribbon and hat pin.
On panel 1 I just layered dp over the white card base.
To finish I added a pretty acrylic flower.
All of the supplies can be found at the MFP STORE. http://www.marksfinestpapers.com/servlet/StoreFront

Thanks for dropping by, Nicky

April Sneak Peek of the upcoming Set "In my Mother's Garden by Mark's Finest Papers

This is a Sneak Peek of an upcoming set for Mark's Finest Papers.
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The set it called "In my Mother's Garden" and I think it's gorgeous and you are only seeing a snippet of what's on this set.
Today's color challenge asked us to use the following colors:Poppy Parade
Baja Breeze
Pear Pizazz
I've substituted these colors with cs from MFP.
I inked the image in Palette Noir black and colored with copic markers and gel pens. I also added tiny half pearls in a green tone. I popped this adorable watering can onto some Nestabilities round die cuts in plain and scallop.
The dp is by K&Company/Julianne.
The border at the bottom is by Magnolia doohickeys/berry lace die and the tiny red flowers were made using a punch and then some half pearls were added.

Nicky